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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2017)
![]() One 24-ounce energy drink has 330 calories, more than a fast-food cheeseburger, and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar.
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Tech News: 2017-36
22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2017)
![]() A small pond hockey field
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Tech News: 2017-37
19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Howard Leslie Elliott for deletion

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Nomination of Jo Cribb for deletion

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2017)
![]() A spelling error on a road sign
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Tech News: 2017-38
15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)
![]() George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)
![]() George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017)
Hello, Stuartyeates.
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Tech News: 2017-40
23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017)
![]() Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting.
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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017)
![]() A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Tech News: 2017-42
15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 24
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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017)
![]() A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John
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Jurors for WikiScienceCompetition 2017
Hi, I don't if you missed all the messages I left here and on commons and wikiveristy about this event.
I am checking with Ivo Kruusamägi from Wikimedia Estonia the composition of the final jury. We did our best to keep it balanced by continent, gender, field etc but in the end it is still a little bit eurocentric.
I hope that the results will promote science around the globe in any case. As a last appropriate effort now that more urgent issues have been addressed and we are finalizing the main organization, I am looking all the profiles of active wikimedians from or related to Africa, South American Oceania or Asia but not to countries with national juries, with a public name and surname (jurors should be public figures) and a scientific or technological education or position, the key aspect is to make a wikidata item of the jurors, so I need some ID that show they are or were related to the academia. There are good chance for example that this is you. We want to give the idea to the young researcher that we their images will be evaluated by people who were or are in the academia like them, with different backgrounds.
Would you be interested in joining us to be a juror in the second-level jury? I am sure that next time we will find new additional contacts and I will find your name not at the last minute.
Even you don't have time, could you help us also in promoting the event amongst people you know or mailing lists or groups you have joined? This will be also useful to promote more national juries next time.
Thank you in advance.--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:26, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Alexmar983 I'm http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-1062, I have a Phd in computer science / digital libraries from Waikato University, spent time working at Oxford and now work in an academic library. I'm happy to spend a little time judging things related to computer science or libraries. Ping me with instructions. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:08, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- We will have the instructions once we start, the strategy we adopt will depend on the final number of jurors. If we get few mores we will create different subjuries for continents groups for example. We are thinking about it know (and the event has not started yet).
- In any case, there is no category for "computer science". These are the categories. It is more like balanced sensitivity of different fields and countries. But no worries if you don't join... in the meantime I got someone from New Zealand in the main jury and a mathematician, so I did my best to fill the box. At this point, it is more about how you feel. If you like the idea of looking at hundreds of pictures of different fields and say yes/no to send them to next jury, jump in. Otherwise if you think it is boring, don't worry.
- I can give you the link when the start date is officially decleared, and you can spread the news. That's also a good thing.
- Thank you for the quick reply in any case.
- Ops, I put a wrong SCOPUS link! in any case since I saw all the IDs I used the one I could access from PRC and created d:Q42306660. Take it as a thank you for the reply... plus I am trying to explore the world of resesrchers' items on wikidata too.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-43
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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017)
![]() Choreographed dancing at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in 2015
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Tech News: 2017-44
00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2017)
![]() "Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster
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Tech News: 2017-45
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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)
An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.)
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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)
Hello, Stuartyeates.
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)
![]() A student performing schoolwork
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Tech News: 2017-48
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2017)
![]() Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agricultural fields in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia. Taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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About Anne Veronica Goldson - moved to Annie Goldson?
Hi Stuart,
It would appear that Dr Goldson is much better known as Annie Goldson - see her NZ On Screen bio here.
I have gone ahead and moved the page. Your thoughts about this?
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- User:Shirt58, I'm fine with that. I'm thinking about nuking the subjects' contribution, however, since this isn't a CV. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- "the subjects' contribution" -Special:Contributions/121.98.247.88? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- The irony of a professor who teaches journalism not immediately recognising the difference between a primary and tertiary source is not lost. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- The very real problems faced by a real, living person who has a WP:BLP article here and has to navigate the labyrinth of WP:PG ain't just ironic, it's positively Kafka-esque.--Shirt58 (talk) 10:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- The irony of a professor who teaches journalism not immediately recognising the difference between a primary and tertiary source is not lost. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- "the subjects' contribution" -Special:Contributions/121.98.247.88? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for Brigid Hughes. Timely contribution. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 07:52, 8 December 2017 (UTC) |
Thanks, User:Victuallers. Someone was complaining on twitter that she wasn't mentioned in another article, so I got them to tweet me some refs. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:02, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
- Oh I know - I (and others) tweet as #wikiwomeninred Victuallers (talk) 09:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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Brigid Hughes
Thanks for the question. Interesting. The top job at the Paris Review, normally, is Editor. The founder, George Plimpton was the Editor. Hughes is the only one who's had the top job referred to as Executive Editor. Here's how they refer to the past editors on their Masthead page:
Past Editors George Plimpton (1953–2003), Brigid Hughes (Executive Editor, 2004–2005), Philip Gourevitch (2005–2010), Lorin Stein (2010-2017)[1].
According to the pieces in the New York Times, she started as an intern, was hired as an editor (doesn't specify what level, but probably associate editor), then was named Managing Editor. When Plimpton died, she was named "interim editor," meaning top editor pro tem, like Plimpton but only temporarily, ie, while they looked for a successor. The board wound up giving her the job, naming her "executive editor." For clarity sake I agree that using "executive editor" will make it clearer. All the clips refer to her position before she became the exec as "interim editor." I'll figure something out and reword it shortly.
Thanks for the query.
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2017)
![]() Cover page of the Wikimedia Deutschland 2015 Impact Report
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2017)
Hello, Stuartyeates.
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Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 04:23, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
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Grunf (talk) 14:35, 2 February 2018 (UTC)Hi Stuart. I'm an academic from Croatia and I use the page Michael Adrian Peters with my students. Usually they just use the Croatian version, but now I've got a few foreign students as well, and I was surprised when they told me the page was down. I first waited a bit, but when the page did not return, decided to ask. So I looked up the webpage, and found out that you put it down for what seems to be a good reason. Now I'm only vaguely familiar with Wikipedia and its editing policies (sorry if my question is posted in a wrong manner or place), but I do think that you might want to reconsider the decision to put the page down, or perhaps to leave it in a different, more appropriate format for Wikipedia, and retain the important parts of the text. Can you please advise what should be done in order to provide at least some info on Peters in English Wikipedia? My students primarily need the list of publications and basic biographical information, really just encyclopedic stuff, which was nicely done in the previous version. I do know the subject in person, but I also use his work professionally, and the Wikipedia page is really helpful for my students. Thanks a lot for your reply, and once again excuse me for any ignorance about your work.
- Hi I suggest you read Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Michael_Adrian_Peters where the concensus is that he may not be notable and the whole page might be deleted: in short we need secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:00, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Female NZ Professors - AUT
Hi there, I admire your commitment to creating pages for female professors in NZ. How's the progress going? I would like to draw your attention to the fact that you've missed AUT. See the list at "AUT professors".. Tayste (edits) 20:54, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Tayste. It came out of event funded by the RSNZ and run by USer:Giantflightlessbirds that I helped out on; I had no idea there were this many female profs, and once I knew I was too stubborn to admit defeat. There are several classes of female profs I've missed (including quite a few deceased, retired and emeritus; and I've still not found any at Wānanga). In reality I'll probably not catch them all, but in terms of WP:Systemic bias, I'm not sure absolute completeness is required, just doing a fair whack. I see you've added the AUT ones to my list; I'll get to them eventually, Alison McIntosh was already done and I have Tania Ka'ai currently under construction. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yay. I'll try to help some more when time permits, tho I might focus on institutions I'm not affiliated with first, i.e. outside Auckland. Feel free to ping me on the talk pages of specific ones you'd like help with. Tayste (edits) 10:18, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- I'm much more laissez-faire about COI than I used to be. These days I declare a bunch of COIs and am happy to back off if anyone takes exception; this lets me edit whatever I want :). Stuartyeates (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yay. I'll try to help some more when time permits, tho I might focus on institutions I'm not affiliated with first, i.e. outside Auckland. Feel free to ping me on the talk pages of specific ones you'd like help with. Tayste (edits) 10:18, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Tayste. It came out of event funded by the RSNZ and run by USer:Giantflightlessbirds that I helped out on; I had no idea there were this many female profs, and once I knew I was too stubborn to admit defeat. There are several classes of female profs I've missed (including quite a few deceased, retired and emeritus; and I've still not found any at Wānanga). In reality I'll probably not catch them all, but in terms of WP:Systemic bias, I'm not sure absolute completeness is required, just doing a fair whack. I see you've added the AUT ones to my list; I'll get to them eventually, Alison McIntosh was already done and I have Tania Ka'ai currently under construction. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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Help request for synonym labeling
@Stuartyeates: We are building a model to be able to do article section alignment across Wikipedia languages. I'm wondering if you can help us with a labeling task that will define the ground truth for a synonym detection algorithm. (Please be aware that clicking on the next two links will take you to a Google spreadsheet) The task and the instructions, in case you'd like to look into it. Also, if you have recommendations on who else can help us for English or some of the other languages, please suggest names in the Usernames sheet. I'd appreciate if you let me know if this is something you can help us with. Thanks either way! :) --LZia (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi User:LZia (WMF) I've done a handfull and will do a bunch more later in the day. The link to the task took me to a spreadsheet sheet that I couldn't edit, which was initially confusing... Stuartyeates (talk) 20:09, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Stuartyeates. I locked en-r1 and gave you access with your gmail account. I think it wouldn't work if you were not logged in with that account. I see that you're on en-r2 now. No problem. I'll lock it once you finish. We want to make sure we don't mix signals from those who help labeling at the label collection level. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- The issue appear to be that i was logged on to a different gmail account when I clicked on the link from wikipedia and this messed up the permissions. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:53, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Stuartyeates. I locked en-r1 and gave you access with your gmail account. I think it wouldn't work if you were not logged in with that account. I see that you're on en-r2 now. No problem. I'll lock it once you finish. We want to make sure we don't mix signals from those who help labeling at the label collection level. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi User:LZia (WMF) I've done a handfull and will do a bunch more later in the day. The link to the task took me to a spreadsheet sheet that I couldn't edit, which was initially confusing... Stuartyeates (talk) 20:09, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Stuart - Jennifer Windsor has requested the article about her be deleted. You may wish to take a look as I note that you wrote most of it. I think, on the basis of a fairly superficial examination of Google data, that it should be retained as she appears to be notable in my view. NealeFamily (talk) 05:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up, User:NealeFamily. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Is Judy Margaret Parr notable?
Hello, @Stuartyeates: While reviewing new articles, I came across your article on Judy Margaret Parr. As the article stands, it is not clear how she meets the Notability standards for academics (at WP:NACADEMIC). I have not tagged the article yet: I thought I would check with you first. Just being a professor is not enough. Please indicate how she has had a significant influence on her field, and/or what prestigious awards or honours she has received, or how else she is notable (in Wikipedia's special meaning of that word).--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:02, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think she's notable. If you don't, you're welcome to take the article to AFD. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bugger, I was hoping the answer would be that there's more material you haven't got around to incorporating yet. I really hate deleting good articles. There are plenty of rubbish ones that really need deleting. Never mind, I think I will leave it to somebody else to take this one to AfD if they choose... --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Gronk Oz: before I posted my response, I did add more material :). Full disclosure: I have another at AfD right now Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Windsor if you're interested in casting a !vote. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Stuartyeates:
Done --Gronk Oz (talk) 11:42, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Stuartyeates:
- @Gronk Oz: before I posted my response, I did add more material :). Full disclosure: I have another at AfD right now Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Windsor if you're interested in casting a !vote. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bugger, I was hoping the answer would be that there's more material you haven't got around to incorporating yet. I really hate deleting good articles. There are plenty of rubbish ones that really need deleting. Never mind, I think I will leave it to somebody else to take this one to AfD if they choose... --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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I removed your comment here. In your paper that you cited there, you wrote things like "A number of people have criticised Beall for racism" and "Taken together the last three issues would be seem to be easy to characterise as racism, xenophobia or colonialism, depending upon the lens one uses.", each of which is quite different from the declarative statement you made at WT:MED. BLP applies everywhere in WP. It is not ~exactly~ a BLP violation but close enough to make my hair stand up. Please feel free to repost more...carefully. Jytdog (talk) 22:11, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Stuartyeates!
I quick follow up on the synonym labeling project. Will you have time to complete it soon? It is important for us to have the whole list made by a unique person. If you don't have time to finish it, that not a big deal. Just tell me so I can find someone to work on that list. :)
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Sentence case
Stuartyeates, WP uses sentence case for headings as per MOS:HEADINGS. After creating nearly 2,500 articles that shouldn't be news to you. I suspect, though, that you are working from a template and that it contains the heading "Selected Works". Could you please adjust that template to use "Selected works"? Similarly for "Private Life". Much appreciated. Schwede66 01:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- The other thing that's missing from your template is DEFAULTSORT! Lastly, you place the stub tag in the wrong spot; it belongs into the very last line and there are supposed to be two empty lines between the last category entry and the stub tag. Could you please confirm that you'll fix your template for new articles? Schwede66 02:49, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
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